I must admit, I really enjoyed the flashbacks to Caprica City “before the fall.”

Baltar living the good life; Roslin loving and then losing her family, learning Lee had stolen Zac’s girlfriends before… Though the scene with Lee all totally drunk in his apartment and chasing the pigeon was utterly puzzling and made no sense to me. And I’d love to know what Adama had to do that he believed to be beneath him.

In fact, as Roslin stood in the fountain in her nightgown and dressing gown, it once again occurred to me that the fact this woman has yet to win an Emmy for her work on this series is just frakkin’ criminal.

So keep all that in mind as I say this:

WHAT ON KOBOL WAS THE POINT OF ALL THAT?

OK, I’ve gotten that out of my system.

I do truly believe – perhaps because I must – that Moore & Eick wouldn’t have shared these scenes with us if they weren’t going to have it all make sense in the end. And perhaps it’s SciFi’s fault, making the three hours of “Daybreak” be split into two pieces, with the final two hours coming next week. Sure, let’s blame SciFi – after all, it’s their fault we’ve had to wait this long for this half of the season.

In fact, I find it hard to really review last night’s episode, because it was so obviously just the setup for everything that is to come. Act I, so to speak.

But here we go, anyway:

Cavil and Doral are totally unredeemable. Neither cares the slightest about dissecting Hera. Simon, on the other hand, looks decidedly unhappy about his role, though that doesn’t stop him from firing up the drill.

Boomer obviously doesn’t want any harm to come to Hera – the question is whether Simon will help her save the child. On a show where nothing is ever certain, that is definitely not certain.

Hera is fully aware, it seems, of what is going to happen. And she’s scared. Who wouldn’t be?

She has no idea, though, that the tide has turned on Galactica and none other than the Admiral himself is going to come after her, along with Starbuck, Apollo and a ton of other folks. Even Roslin, who’s risen from her pre-death bed long enough for this one last effort.

Found it fascinating that Anders knew where The Colony was. I wonder how. Is it the same type of prescience the hybrids have?

Got chills when Adama told Starbuck he knew who she was: His daughter. That must have meant so much to her; she’s always been like one of his children. Knowing he still felt that way must have meant so very much to her. Then, when they went to the landing bay together and put the tape down on the ground to have everyone pick a side … a beautiful moment.

We knew Tigh and Ellen would go. We knew Tyrol would go. I loved how Tyrol basically told Tori she didn’t have anything better to do with her time and Ellen told her she was never able to be alone. Since the arrival of Ellen, Tori’s basically realized she’s not some badass Cylon, but she still wants to be. I really wonder what she was like before.

Here’s the question, though: Did Baltar cross that line? And which side of the line was he even on? It wasn’t clear. I’m quite curious. I do think he ended up going (whether it was because he didn’t want his followers to believe him a coward or because he felt he finally needed to do something selfless or because Head Six had told him he would help write the final chapter of human history and he sees this as that chapter or any other reason yet to be fathomed), primarily because it is him, Roslin, Caprica Six and Athena (or is it Boomer?) in the Opera House Dream.

And regarding the Opera House, I’d imagine that’s a representation of some sort of The Colony. I wonder if Athena and Roslin being shut off from Hera, who goes with Caprica Six and Baltar means that Athena and Roslin die and Hera has a new mommy and daddy? Not sure what that means about Helo.

I love that The Colony is right outside a singularity and has only one way in or out. You just know that Galactica is going to be used as a diversion – she’s falling apart; why not use her for what’s probably a suicide mission anyhow??

I cannot frakkin’ believe I will miss the airing of the two-hour finale and will have to catch up online EIGHT DAYS LATER. It’s terribly unfair. Why can’t NBC/Universal post the episode online the next day, like they used to? The very final So Say We All blog carnival will be held up a week because of this. I can’t not host the final BSG blog carnival ever.

Curious what everyone else thinks about last night’s ep…